THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"MULTOEUM MANIBUS GEANDE LETATUE 0NTT8." — Ovid. 



THE FORTIETH GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



aJEtltsIjirc ^rcfj^olostcal anlr Natural f^istorg ^octets, 



HELD AT WARMINSTER, 

 /w^ 26iA, ZltA, and 2SiA, 1893, 



THE PEE8IDENT OF THE SOCIETY, 



Lt.-Gen. Pitt-Rivebs, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., &c.. 



In the Chair.! 



?|HE Society had not met at "Warminster since 1877, and it 

 was accordingly selected as the place of meeting for 1893. 

 A Local Committee had worked most assiduously beforehand to make 

 it a success, and collected a sum o£ nearly £80 in the locality to- 

 wards defraying the expenses, out of which luncheon on the two 

 days' Excursions, and light refreshments at the evening Conver- 

 saziones were provided. Indeed, all the arrangements for the 

 comfort of those attending the Meeting were made on a lavish and 

 liberal scale, and at the conclusion a considerable balance made an 

 extremely welcome addition to the Society's general funds. 



The proceedings began on the 26th with the GENERAL 

 MEETING, which was held at the Town Hall at 4 o'clock, about 

 fifty persons being present. General Pitt-Rivbrs gave an account 

 of his latest excavation at RUSHMORE— that of the South Lodge 

 Camp — illustrated, as his papers always are, by numerous diagrams, 

 and by two models of the camp — one of the ground as it was 

 before excavation, the other as it appeared when the trench had been 



' The Editor desires to acknowledge the assistance he has received in preparing 

 this report from the pages of the Swindon Advertiser and the Warminster and 

 Westhury Journal. 

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